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This seems likely to be worse. How do you screen out people who point an LLM at your values and ask it to answer your questions in a way likely to appeal to a recruiter using an LL…

An AI written post talking about the importance of human connection in the age of AI is hilarious.

My favorite is how if you buy a “premium” ticket that comes with a checked bag they still try to trick you into paying for a checked bag (again).

I believe it’s still a single section, so probably around 250 (at least that’s about what it was when I was there a long time ago). Compared to the 1000+ who take 61A.

Not true. App Store is less than 1/3 of services revenue.

This is not correct. Here's Pfizer's 2025 annual report [1]. Total expenses for the year were $55.1 billion. Advertising expenses were $2.7 billion of that, or just under 5%. R&D e…

Worth noting that LA does not have freeze cycles. I wonder what the pothole formation likelihood is as a result.

In addition to snmx999's point, you're also not specifying that you want to wash your car at the car wash (as opposed to washing it in your driveway or something, in which case the…

I don't think it is, though. Where is the car? Do you want to wash your car at the car wash ? Both of those are rather important pieces of information. Everyone is relying on assum…

Determined how?

The uproar over AI data center resource use has been rather bizarre to see and feels vaguely luddite. As this article points out, frivolous things like golf courses are far worse u…

Are you sure it was actually a 40mph zone in that section? Austin has plenty of school and construction zones with lower speed limits that most drivers completely ignore.

737 MAX. That whole saga was because of Boeing trying really hard to not certify a new airframe so that they could quickly push out a competitor to A320 Neo. The result was hundred…

EB-5 is intended to create businesses and jobs in the US as part of the process. This is just straight-up "give us money and we'll give you residency". On the other hand, it's not …

Chat? No. But the strength of Teams is that it lets you do everything else you want in an integrated communications app - voice, video calls, calendars, viewing (and editing) docum…

Please note if your goal is minimizing carbon footprint, burning wood instead of other biomass is probably not a great idea [1]. [1] https://www.pfpi.net/carbon-emissions/

Varies by year, but top 1% share of income is around 21% right now in the US: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/income-share-top-1-before... i.e. the US tax system is still fairly…

Do you think train operators should make a quarter million a year to drive the same train on the same route every day? https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=train+o.…

For those who were hoping for the physical version of this, I recommend the Stuff Made Here Video on the topic: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cQO2XTP7QDw

You’re conveniently ignoring what “reserves” means in the GENIUS act. Unlike regular banks, Circle can use US Treasuries instead of cash so that they earn interest and prop up US g…

TSMC has already put $65B into the Phoenix fab and is adding at least that much more, so no. You're off by an order of magnitude.

The data is kind of misleading. Texas actually produces almost twice as much solar + wind power as California. The %mix is lower because Californians don’t have to run AC and heat …

In this case it mostly does. Only South Korean men must do compulsory military service. It's optional for women.

I recommend reading the full paper linked by esafak. For those without the time, the brief summary is that political stress is a multiplication of (1) the likelihood of the general…

Thanks for linking the full paper. The most worrying part is that the numerical study is from 2013 and two of the key factors (government debt to GDP and trust in government) have …